THE CULTIVATION OF FORAGE. 549 



Have we the enterprise, or shall I call it the necessary common sense ? 

 Indeed, history, past and present, shows that with such a sunshine as ours, 

 te nations would be in possession of an enormous agricultural wealth, 

 l.v the simple economy of that sunshine in the production of repeated 

 crops of fodder plants in one season, even from a bed of sand. 



\\V want then to secure such a succession, or association of green fod- 

 ders during six months of the year as shall secure the following objects : 



1. An early cut. 



2. Repeated cuttings of the same plant. 



3. A sufficient number to offer an unbroken supply of succulent 

 herbage. 



4. Kinds to differ considerably in their constituent elements. 



.'. The largest possible produce per acre consistent with good husbandry 

 (and this implies much). 



High fattening and milking properties. 



I have no desire to lengthen introductory remarks, and shall now sub- 

 mit for consideration, first a diagram, showing what crops, in our present 

 knowledge of things, can be cultivated in view of these objects. In this 

 we have the experience of different parts of Canada, and particularly that 

 of The Ontario Experimental Farm. 



11 known, all animal life must have a change of food in order 

 to secure health and the best production of flesh and milk, and so we 

 are called upon to examine the nourishing values of these various plants 

 as got month by month. 



Rich old pasture, with its many varieties of 'grasses, is not only one of 



most valuable fodders, green or dry, as is well known for milk-making, 



it also takes a high place as an actual fattener for animals ; for these 



1 as a standard for comparing other green fodders with, 



M-conlin^ly w* shall adopt it on this occasion. 



If th'ii icood pasture, with its full TOO per cent, of nourishing proper- 



:ndardof nature's making as improved by man for all the 



Mtials of animal life, it must be important to see how far our ten 



en fo.Mers roiue up to this standard from month to 



ill. 



m- kads with '.'vS ; millet, second, with *36 ; red clo\vr liavin 

 in, fourth, with -2-S JMT cent, 

 Three of tli. > in April mak.- a l;ir^f start, therefore with an average of 



i it will he nl.-M-rvr.l that all tin- early rnp|i.-rs an- \ 



much .siijM-rior in their frcdin.j- values than those that com.- after .June 

 mil ted There is then a range of no less than '18 from -J<) in 



